I actually do think there will be a big ressurgance of "hardcore games", it's exactly what happened with the PS2, the world got over saturated with big name massive budget titles, and creating them wasn't worth the effort because the market was highly cluttered with them. I see the exact same thing happening this generation also, Hell I've already seen 3 Carnival Mini-game type games on the Wii, how much longer do you think that genre can sell?
I believe the current gen will see that casual gaming is definately a massive profit, and many many people will jump on board. Casual games will sell to many, and the hardcore, massive budget games will slowly start becoming more rare, then as soon as the "Casual" market gets cluster-fucked, the shift will start sliding the other way, with a much higher install base thanks to the "casual" market's increase.
I dunno just my pretty pennies :P
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